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I use mutt for my Gmail (IMAP). I respond to a lot of messages that are TXT messages from cell phones. When I reply to them I would like to know how many characters I have typed so I can avoid sending multi-page SMS.
An on-screen display of total characters (must include spaces) or a keyboard combination would be fine.
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Mutt uses an external editor, so how you do this depends on the editor you've chosen. If you're using Vim, typing the two-character sequence g Ctrl-G will show you a line of buffer statistics at the bottom of the screen, including the total number of bytes.
garyjohn
Posted 2010-09-04T15:37:05.243
Reputation: 29 085
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What editor are you using in mutt? For example, I'm using nano (my /usr/bin/editor is symlinked to /etc/alternatives/editor which is symlinked to /bin/nano - a similar effect is obtained if $VISUAL or $EDITOR is set to /bin/nano).
If you start nano with -c (or --const) or have set const in your ~/.nanorc it will display the character count at the bottom of the screen as you type.
Paused until further notice.
Posted 2010-09-04T15:37:05.243
Reputation: 86 075